New Blackstar product

Lev

...not sure if the world (or Blackstar for that matter) needs a new practice amp but here is goes....

ThePrettyDamned

It's going into a 4x12 and says fly at the end...

High powered, super small solid state or hybrid head gigging solution?

If so, TOP MARKS.

not_the_dj

ThePrettyDamned said:

It's going into a 4x12 and says fly at the end...

High powered, super small solid state or hybrid head gigging solution?

If so, TOP MARKS.

I'd buy one of those (if that's what it is).

Hmmm.

ThePrettyDamned

not_the_dj;385984" said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

It's going into a 4x12 and says fly at the end...



High powered, super small solid state or hybrid head gigging solution?



If so, TOP MARKS.





I'd buy one of those (if that's what it is).

Hmmm.

Yeah, it's definitely something I'd need to try, space is at a premium...

richardhomer

I know Blackstar seem to annoy people - the 'pure valve distortion' hyperbole is probably part of their image 'problem' - but I like their products. They look good, sound decent and are reasonably priced.

I often record using the emulated out on my HT1R and get great results - rather than trying to mic my LSS.

Whatever that is - it sounds good.

Lev

I was thinking the cab was a decoy and it's really just a tiny practice amp, but I guess they have already done that.

underdog

Agree, I've got a blackstar ht5 in a tarty colour, it looks and sounds good in comparison to what it costs.

blueskunk

Had a few of the ht amps and defo not my cup of tea much prefer laney lc15s or vc15s.

ICBM

The clean sound in that clip is excellent. Not so keen on the distortion, but that's just one brief example…

It does sound quite a bit less dark overall than I usually find Blackstars.

Interesting, whatever it is!

DartmoorHedgehog

Some sort of mini-ID head along the lines of a Micro Terror but with a modelling preamp? (ID Core head?)

ThePrettyDamned

I'm hoping... It's a two channel, simple amp that has a valvetronix style power amp (ie a valve is a key part of it, but the hard work is done by a solid state amp). It really does seem to make a difference in those.

Don't care of modelled or not, quite like both sounds in the video, though the distortion has a very bright attack. Not bad, and I'm sure it'll be easily sorted.

Very interested actually.

ICBM

DartmoorHedgehog said:

ID Core head?

I suspect something like that since the jack is in the top - which is a bad thing, to me.

digitalscream

Moved to amps...

For me, Blackstar have an unfortunate history of taking products which make me sit up and pay attention, then think "meh" and move on. Not entirely sure this is going to be very different, but I'm ever hopeful...

Drew_TNBD

TVP in a box ala the EHX Magnum 44?

Drew_TNBD

Clean is nice. Distortion is weak.

Danny1969

Maybe it's a small head you can take on a plane with integral effects and enough wattage to do a gig. Dirty sound on that clip is not great to my ears. Clean wasn't bad

Grumpyrocker

I reckon an ID:5

monquixote

I've been really hoping they would do a guitarists equivalent of a Mark Bass head. 

Some simplified amp modelling and a giggable amount of power in a very small box. 

I'd have one like a shot.

thecolourbox

It sounds like a guitar amp to me

ThePrettyDamned

monquixote;386176" said:

I've been really hoping they would do a guitarists equivalent of a Mark Bass head. 

Some simplified amp modelling and a giggable amount of power in a very small box. 

I'd have one like a shot.

Yeah, this.

A simplified ID. According to @icbm the innards of an id is nothing anyway, so simplify it and it isn't that hard to imagine a mini head

A full size id is great for starter covers bands, the Mini one could be ideal for backup or starter originals bands - what with it lacking the programmability perhaps, so it only has 2 channels and FX on/off for each, rather than 128 individual presets or whatever.

ICBM

ThePrettyDamned said:

According to @icbm the innards of an id is nothing anyway, so simplify it and it isn't that hard to imagine a mini head

It's not nothing, but the innards of an ID60 head would fit in a 2U rackmount casing without even re-arranging anything - and there's still a fair amount of space in the chassis at that - and possibly something about the size of a Tiny Terror if you did.